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    Payouts King Scheduled Task Persistence via Mozilla UpdateTask or ElevateTask

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    GlassDiceBearhttps://www.dicebear.comhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Glass” (https://www.dicebear.com) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
    Ibrahim Saud@tektrix
    •updated Jun 30, 2026•0•0•2

    Detects the Payouts King malware creating, running, or deleting specific scheduled tasks named \Mozilla\UpdateTask or \Mozilla\ElevateTask, as well as indirect execution of these tasks via cmd.exe redirection.

    Microsoft Sentinel (KQL)

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    T1053.005 - Scheduled TaskT1059.003 - Windows Command ShellT1070.004 - File DeletionTA0002 - ExecutionTA0003 - PersistenceTA0004 - Privilege EscalationTA0005 - Defense EvasionProcess CreationScheduled Task CreatedScheduled Task DeletedScheduled Task TriggeredCommand ExecutionWindowsWindows Task Scheduler ServiceWindows Shell Corekql

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